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check if hrm strap is connected

Tonight I had weird HR readings during a run. Can I check somewhere of my watch and HRM-strap were paired or not? Check during the run, or afterwards I do not care. But now I do not have a clue. It is the HRM Dual.

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G141592653589793238 over 1 year ago +2 verified

Into the activity mode you can press the middle button to go to Settings > Sensors & Accessories and the watch show you the list of all your sensors and which one is "Connected".
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S.M.R. over 1 year ago in reply to DaKo +2

It may be worthwhile un-pairing and re-pairing the HRM as a precautionary step.
DaKo over 1 year ago in reply to S.M.R. +2

So I did a minute ago. See if that helps. Of the 13 runs so far this year, 7 runs did not register the strap. An unacceptable amount, so worth trying to solve the issue.

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+1 G141592653589793238 over 1 year ago

Into the activity mode you can press the middle button to go to Settings > Sensors & Accessories and the watch show you the list of all your sensors and which one is "Connected".
Also from the Garmin Connect you can see the battery status of the sensors on the last activity just in case that the battery is wrong and this cause some weird data.

0 DaKo over 1 year ago in reply to G141592653589793238

Found it in the connect app. Not only my last run was not-paired, also the one before. And some more before that. It puzzles me. Why is this happening? I will pay attention to the message of "external Heart Monitor found" before starting my run. Maybe that helps.

0 S.M.R. over 1 year ago in reply to DaKo

It may be worthwhile un-pairing and re-pairing the HRM as a precautionary step.

0 G141592653589793238 over 1 year ago in reply to DaKo

It's strange, never happened to me. This only occured me when I forgot to turn off the Airplane Mode on the watch.
S.M.R. 's suggestion it's a good step to do.

0 DaKo over 1 year ago in reply to S.M.R.

So I did a minute ago. See if that helps. Of the 13 runs so far this year, 7 runs did not register the strap. An unacceptable amount, so worth trying to solve the issue.

0 7419217 over 1 year ago

I agree, it should be nice to have an icon somewhere, at least on the activity start "page" showing that chest strap is paired.

Anyway on 17.26 chest strap is loosing connection quite often.

0 Piero over 1 year ago

Are you sure the hrm dual works? 99% of the time it's a dead battery or a broken HRM dual.

0 Piero over 1 year ago

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0 snakekick over 1 year ago

I have the same problem with a new hrm-dual.
usually no connection is established.
deleting the hrm-dual and searching manually only works after 3 or 4 attempts.
Battery status shown as good

0 DaKo over 1 year ago in reply to Piero

Yes, because the time it does connect, the battery status is OK, as told by Connect. So I suppose that is true.